Boland

1911 Boland Original configuration (1911 Aeronautics)1911 Boland 3-view (1911 Aeronautics)1912 Boland Modified version (1912 Aeronautics)Tailless Triplane, Biplane 1911 = 1pOT and OB; 60hp Boland V-8 pusher; span: 29'6" length: 19'6" v: 50; ff: 7/3/11. 1913 data: span: 35'6" length: 21'2" v: 60. Used spring-loaded, flying-jib type of sails between the wingtips as ailerons; front elevators; quad gear. POP: 3 to 5, quite heavily modified over three years, according to articles, some with four-cylinder motors, and at least 1 fitted with a conventional, boxed-in fuselage as a biplane. As for the prototype biplane, Aeronautics of Nov 1911 editorialized: "No attempt has been made to refine the machine ... The cloth is rusty from weather and has been on for about a year ... no shed is provided for the machine at allhe just leaves it out like a lazy farmer would his plow. Some ribs have one curve, some another; sometimes they are flat due to weather conditions. All Boland wants to do is fly and he doesn't care a hang for looks."

Flying Boat 1912 = 1pOBFb modified from the 1910 design, in which Boland was killed in Trinidad on 1/23/13.

Bomhoff

Bomhoff, Canada County OK.

c.1939 = 2pOB; no data found. Used for coyote hunting ( Air Trails July 1940).

Bonbrake

L Dewey Bonbrake, Kansas City KS.

Parasol 1928 = 2pOhwM; 40hp Wright-Anzani (later 55hp Velie?). Began as 1920 Bahl Lark, redesigned by Bonbrake in 1924 and rebuilt as Tuxhorn Lark, then apparently purchased and renamed by Bonbrake. To cloud matters further, it was also seen as Gebhart from appearances at 1928 Nationals events piloted by Harry L "Gene" Gebhart [932Y]. Design evolved into Inland Sport series. Bonbrake (erroneously spelled Bonebrake) was later with the original Manhattan Project as designer of the trigger mechanism for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.

Bond

Bone

1928: R O Bone Co, 415 E Industrial Ave, Inglewood CA.

P-1 aka ROBC Sport 1928 = 1p (assumed high-wing); 35hp Anzani; span: 24'2" length: 20'6". POP: 1 "single-seater sport plane for test work & demonstration" [X10005] c/n 2; reg expired 8/1/29. Designed and built, or converted from something, by Bone prior to his 1929 Golden Eagles (qv), information about which was uncovered by the assiduous John M Jarratt and forwarded on 1/7/05 to help clear up a long-standing mystery. Now all we need is a picture of it, as well as info if c/n 1 was the Bone Parasol P-2 appearing as such on records [464].

Bonney

Leonard Warden Bonney and Kirkham Motor Co, Flushing NY.

Bonney Gull [K1783] (Paul Matt coll)Bonney Gull Original concept modelBonney Gull Ready for take-offGull aka Curtiss Bird Wing 1927 = 2pCmwM; 180hp Kirkham; span: 40'3" length: 21'7" v (est): 140/x/40. Leonard Bonney, built by Kirkham Co. This curious, birdlike machine was awarded a temporary, special-class license because of its unorthodox design [K1783]the "K" is often thought to be merely an incorrect transcription of an "X," but it is clearly evident in one photo. Folding, duraluminum wings, theoretically self-stabilizing; large, steerable tailwheel; side-by-side cockpit. Cost to build: $100,000. Crashed on its initial take-off 5/4/28, killing Bonney, an experienced pilot who learned to fly with Orville Wright in 1910. How or why the name of Curtiss was attached in some references is unknown as no records were found about involvement by Glenn Curtiss or Curtiss Co in this project.

Booth

H T Booth. Freeport NY.

Booth [810W] (Dan Shumaker coll)
1931 = 2pOBFb; Booth pusher, shaft-driven from engine in its metal hull. Had an additional 32hp outboard motor mounted in the hull, with a geared-shaft drive, to operate the plane as a boat. [810W]. John W Underwood informs that Booth was an ex-Curtiss designer who also designed Vanderbilt's Napier-powered Kirkham Air Yacht c.1925.

Bopp

Cecil W Bopp, Waterloo IA.

PM-1 1930 = 1pOhwM; Wright-Morehouse. Bopp's first solo flight was also the test flight of this parasol airplane. Eventually he put 125 hours on it. [10701].

Borchers

Borg

19?? = Reputed to be a version of Rose Parakeet with 125hp Lycoming with marketed plans for home-builders.

Bosshardt

Harry Bosshardt, 1850 Sacramento St, San Francisco CA.

HB-1 1929 = 2plwM; 90hp LeBlond. [X528K] c/n HB-1. Landing accident on 11/15/29, after which it was fitted with "a special device for safety landing." This apparently was of little help because it crashed again on 6/28/31, and reg was cancelled on 7/13/31.

Bourn

Bowers

Peter M Bowers, Seattle WA.

Bowers Fly Baby [N500F] (Larry DiRicco)Fly Baby 1-A 1961 = 1pOlwM; 85hp Continental C-85; span: 28'0" length: 19'0" load: 319# v: 120/105/45. Popular series of home-builts from marketed plans; won 1962 EAA design award. Prototype [N500F]; about 170 built from plans by early 1974. A 2p side-by-side version was developed by students at Ash Fork (AZ) high school [N247AF].

Bowlby

Sunbeam 1929 = 2pOB; 60hp Velie M-5; span: 24'0" length: 17'6". The company existed in 1929 only and produced this one airplane [9951] c/n 101, which was "used for a clown act" by William H Conner in 1929 as a Kansas City air circus. Fate unknown, but reg cancelled 7/18/30.

Bowlus SEE Nelson

Bowman

Elmer Bowman, Owatonna MN.

1930 = 2pChwM; 90hp Curtiss OX-5. Copy of Curtiss Robin. POP: 2 [12007, 12986] c/n 1 and c/n 1933sub (which might have been a relicensed Robin), the first of which was 3p for sightseeing rides, calculated by Bowman as having carried almost 4,000 passengers 1931-35.

Bowyer

Jack B Bowyer, Wichita KS.

BW-1 19?? = 1p flying wing; 65hp Franklin 4AC; span: 26'0" length:
21'0". Not much is known about this remarkable pure flying wing designed and built, possibly in the 1960s, by a Beech Aircraft Corp engineer. Judging by photos, it flew.

Boyd

Chester M & W Hunter Boyd, Logan Field, Baltimore MD.

Boyd A (Frank Blazek via J W Underwood coll)Flying Craft Model A 1924 = 2-3pOmwM; 45hp Anzani; span: 30'0" v: 110/x/30. All-duraluminum with corrugated covering; folding, shoulder gull-wings. Claimed to be first plane in USA to use controllable flaps. Accommodations were also claimed for threenot bad for 45hp! Biblical quotation on its side: "Worthy is the lamb that was slain."

Braley B-2C6 [NX626K] (EAA coll)B2-C6 1930 = Similar to B2-K5 with 170hp Curtiss Challenger. POP: 1 [NX626K], had a flap-like "air brake" within the landing gear struts that, when lowered, would reduce landing speed to about 35mph. Production was wiped out by a hangar fire in Jan 1930. Operations continued as a flying school until the outbreak of WW2, at which time the field was sold to Cessna Corp. Some records show a total Braley production of five aircraft through 1931.

Brantly B-2 (Brantly)Brantly Experimental B-2 See below (Brantly)B-2 1953 (TC 2H2) = 2pCH with a single 23'0" main rotor, and a small tail rotor; length: 21'9" load: 580-640# v: 100/90/0 range: 200-270 ceiling: 11,400'; ff: 2/21/53. Production began in 1959. POP (total all B-2s): 498 to Dec 1999, included 5 built by LearJet.Experimental B-2 differed from production B-2s with (1) low tail rotor, (2) engine oil cooled through a tube looped many times around the tail coneyou can see the band of looped tube towards the end of the tail cone, (3) the inboard section of the main rotor blade is not coveredthere is only a tube where later a fairing with an airfoil shape is seen, (4) two-wheel gear instead of a skid. ( Gilles Lehoux 12/18/01)

HO-3 1958 = US Army 2pCH trainer version of B-2; 180hp Lycoming VO-360-A1A; rotor: 23'8" length: 21'9" load: 690# v: 100/90/0 range: 300 . POP: 5 as YHO-3 [58-1492/1496].The Army is believed to have purchased the first 5 ships off the assembly linean article in American Helicopter Society, May 1958, explains they were intent on purchasing an "off-the-shelf" civil helicopter, so, no major modifications to the production B-2 were probably made such as changing the engine. Some prototypes of the B-2 used a modified 170hp O-340-A1A, but those were definitely not sold to the Army. According to the TC (2H2), the B-2 (military YHO-3BR) was approved for three engines: VO-360-A1A, -A1B, and -B1A. Thus it's possible that any one of those showed up on the Army ships. My guess is since the VO-360-A1A was the first in production, it was also the one on the Army ships. The other two engines may have been later improvements to production. ( Gilles Lehoux 1/8/00)

Brantly-Hynes H-5T (magazine clip)-Hynes H-5T(Hynes) 1986 = Production of HO-3, similar in specs. POP: undisclosed by Army; reportedly most were used as targets, some being fitted with composite fuselage covers to resemble USSR gunships.

Brawner-Bauer SEE Pacific (1930)

Brazil Lion

Safety Plane 1931 = 2pOhwM; 45hp Szekely SR-3; span: 31'0" length: 19'0" v: 105/85/32. POP: 2; one, first known only as Lion, was built in Chicago in 1931, and refitted with 50hp Aeromarine and 55hp Velie [X12074]. The other was built in Brazil with 50hp Aeromarine, replaced by 65hp Velie and 65hp Lambert, and was sponsored by a group of Brazil businessmen [12810]; aka Brazil 300. Production never got under way after the designer (registered as Ray Hernley, Parker IN) disappeared, taking the original plane with him. He was later located and charged with petty larceny, but was acquitted. This plane also shows up in 1931 register as Knowlton LSP, but why?

Breecher

Ray N Breecher, no location.

1936 = 2pOM; 90hp OX-5. [14848] c/n BB-14. Brothers Carl and Ray, at ages of 18 and 16, built a Northrup glider [NC12008] c/n 11, and a Heath Parasol [NC12995] c/n BB-1 (registered as Breecher 77). After a crash, it was rebuilt and changed a little, and their own souped-up Harley-Davidson motor installed. Ray Breecher built the third plane [NC14848] with an OX-5, but info is yet to be found.

Breese 5City of Portland [837H] (TKnL coll)Breese 5 Motor failure at SFO (ex-Capitol Air Lines) (SF Call-Bulletin via K O Eckland coll)5 1927 (ATC 2-5) = 5-6pO/ChwM; 220hp Wright J-5; span: 41'0" length: 31'6" (?>27'3") load: 1460# v: 132/115/43 range: 550. Pilot in open cockpit over the wing. $12,000; POP: about 7; 1 for Varney Air Lines, City of Portland [837H], 2 for Dole Race: Aloha (John Northrop, p: Martin Jensen) [NX914], and Pabco Pacific Flyer (Phil Salzman, p: Livingston Irving) [NX646], which was later purchased by Irving and renamed Irving Cabin [C646]; one or two more reportedly built at Portland. SEE ALSO Breese-Wild below. One production plane [C3817], piloted by Breese, suffered what might be called total engine failure when the motor fell off its mounts over San Francisco on 4/16/28. By having his passengers move forward in the cabin to shift the c/g, Breese was able to maintain control and land safely on an open hillside.

Breese Penguin with nose-over frame [33473]Penguin 1917 = 1pOmwM; 28hp Lawrance A-3; span: 14'0". Non-flying ground trainers for Army pilot training. POP: 301 [AS33462/33761, AS34230], but only 5 were actually used in service. The other 296 were placed in storage, then scrapped after the war.

Breese-Dallas X [NX12899] (K O Eckland coll)-Dallas X 1933 = 6pClwM rg; 450hp P&W Wasp SC-1. W A Mankey. POP: 1 [X12899] c/n 1, born as Michigan Model 1 (qv) at the same address as Breese & Dallas. Vance Breese purchased it from Lambert Aircraft 4/5/35 and flew it to Los Angeles, repowered it, and NR-licensed it for "exhibition and motion picture camera work." Assumably this is when its name changed to Breese & Dallas X. Soon after it was modified with an 800hp P&W Twin Wasp SR-B and new fuel tanks (185- and 105-gallons in the fuselage, 40- and 15-gallons in each wing), then licensed 4/24/36 "for long-distance cross-country flights" and sold to Jackie Cochran 10/3/36 for the 1937 Bendix Race. However, Paul Mantz (United Air Services, Burbank CA) acquired it on 1/6/37 and flew it to Mexico 1/10/37 to sell to Col Roberto Fierro of the Mexican AAF (price: $25,000). Scheduled for shipment to Spain for use in their Civil War, it crashed in early 1937 flying from Mexico City to Vera Cruz (p: Cloyd Clevenger). Its CAA license expired 4/12/37.

Breese-Wild-Wild 1927 = 9pChwM; Wright J-4B Whirlwind; span: 42'0" length: 30'3". POP: 1 [5053], in league with Arthur "Pop" Wild, built for Walter T Varney as a mail carrier on CAM-5, Boise ID. Placed in storage in 1929. John M Jarratt believes this was the prototype Breese 5, which is confimed by J W Underwood as prototype B-5 [C(or X)534E]; Varney rejected it, "likely from a thumbs down by chief pilot Leon Cuddeback, who favored biplanes."

Breezy

Robert Liposky, Charles Roloff, Carl Unger, Oak Lawn IL.

RLU-1 1964 = 3pOhwM; 90hp Continental C-90; span: 33'0" length 22'6" load: 500# v: 100/75/30 range: 200. The fuselage was an open framework steel-tube truss. Wings and tail surfaces from a Piper Super Cruiser. Pilot in front and passengers on a bench seat behind him all sat out in the fresh air on this true Flying Carpet. More than 700 sets of plans were sold, with many examples flying all over the world.

Brewster

Claude Brewster, Toledo OH.

1936 = 1pOB; 20hp Henderson. [20481].

Brewster, Brewster-Fleet

1924: Brewster and Co, Aircraft Div, Long Island City NY. 1932: Purchased by James Work; Brewster Aeronautical Corp organized. 1942: Company taken over by US Navy after charges of mismanagement, as well as an untimely strike by workers. 1946: Assets liquidated.

Brewster 33A Design project
33A 1941 - Design for a USN twin-boom shipboard fighter with pusher engine and contrarotating props only made it as far as a wood model.

Brewster B-339 in Belgian markingsB-339, Buffalo 1940 = Export version of B-239 with 1100hp Wright R-1820-G105A and increased fuel tankage, span: 25'11" range: 840. Originally ordered by Belgium, all those were redirected to other Allied countries after its occupation by Germany.

B-339E 1941 = POP: 170 to RAF, RAAF, and RNZAF as Buffalo, and 1 to Netherlands East Indies (Martinique?).

Brewster B-340E Bermuda [NX389B] (Brewster)B-340E, Bermuda 1941 = Export model of SB2A to RAF as Bermuda I; non-folding wings. POP: 206, a RAF count that excludes units diverted to Canada, and those lost in shipping enroute. Problematical, most were used as target tugs and trainers or were scrapped.

Brewster B-439 Prototype [NX341B] (Curtiss-Wright ad)B-439 1941 = Similar to B-339. POP: 20 as Model 339-23 to RAAF in 1942. The 439 Buffalo was in fact the US Navy's F2A-3. The RAAF aircraft referred to were in fact some (and not all) of the B-339Ds delivered to Dutch East Indies Air Force; the picture you show is one of them. On the Japanese invasion of Java in early 1942, some of these aircraft escaped to Australia where some were transferred to RAAF. Some also went to USAAF in Australia, but without a designation of AAF serials. This whole matter is a big mess that keeps historians busy! ( Jos Heyman 12/26/03)

F2A - USN carrier fighter. 1pClwM rg; Dayton T Brown. Faulted with a weak gear for carrier landings and a lack of armor, the plane also was reputed to be an easy target for Zero fighters and became unpopular with USN and Allied pilots. Yet with Finnish pilots its victory ratio was an impressive 42:1 over USSR planes. Despite its stubby, beer-barrel shape, it held a certain charm to aviation aficionadosmuch with the same eye as the ungainly Volkswagen "Bug" was seen by its audienceand has always been a popular subjct for modelers.

F3A Corsair 1943 = Contract-built export versions of Vought F4U-1 with clipped wings to fit aboard British carriers. POP: 735 as F3A-1/-1D, of which 430 to England as Corsair II/III. POP: SEE production batches for data. USN cancelled further production in July 1944 because of alleged company mismanagement.

Brinn

Daniel J Brinn, Garden City KS.

SA-3 1928 = 3pOB; 90hp Curtiss OX-5; span: 31'0" length" 24'0". Brinn was a design engr at Curtiss and Irelandthe Ireland Meteor had the same dimensions. [C5603]; dismantled 1930.Brinn was a flying boat expertmade the first flight of the Fleetwings F-4 [NC16793] and a whole lot moreas well as author of numerous texts used as training aids. ( John W Underwood 3/30/07)

Brock, Brock-Stinson

Walter L Brock, Chicago IL.

Brock
c.1919 = 1pOB; unknown motor. Small, square-tailed plane looking somewhat like a WW1 SPAD, possibly was a modification or copy of one. No data located. NOTE: The photo was digitally enhanced from a tiny part of a larger picture, and front wings struts did not appear, but they could have easily been lost in the graininessa hint of a front strut appears under the right top wing under its cut-out. It's hard to believe those wings would stay on without some leading-edge assist!This appears to be a remodeled DeLloyd Thompson Looper. Brock built two Loopers in 1916 for the Stinsons in San Antonio after he remodeled their Wright B trainers with Dep controls. According to Marge Stinson, Matty Laird borrowed one without permission and spun in, which is how he got his lame leg. ( John W Underwood 3/30/07)

Exhibition Monoplane 1916 = 1pOmwM; 50hp Gnôme rotary; span: 30'10" length: 17'3" load: 200# v: 75. Modified from and built using plans and parts of Brock's 1913 Grahame White-designed Morane-Saulnier H that he brought to the US after exhibition flights in England prior to WW1.

-Stinson aka Brock Loop Tractor 1916 = Similar to the previous, co-designed and -built by Brock and Eddie Stinson for the latter's exhibition tours in the midwest. POP: 1.

Bromon

1987 - A bit unclear, and conflicting in locations, but apparently an attempt to breathe life into the Ahrens AH 404 project. Funding ran out before any recorded production.Peter Ahrens came to New Zealand in the early '80s and set up Speciality Aircraft Services to build FW.190s, then was caught up in some insurance fraud over a aircraft engine and the business ended about 1992. ( Neville Mines 4/17/07)

Brooks

Brooks Aeroplane Co, 209 Rust Ave, Saginaw MI.

Brooks (ad: Aeroplane)
c.1910 = Series of airplanes, either Curtiss or close copies, advertised as Biplane, Tractor-Biplane, Hydroaeroplane, and Monoplane "we have developed""Alexander Hamilton, constructing engineer"and flown at Chicago by "Hillery Beachey with both hands off the controls." Prices from $1500.

Brooks

C E Brooks, Pattonville MO.

Brooks (Peter M Bowers coll)
c.1920 = Awkward, Ford-powered creation with what appears to be a short, rotating upper wing, and a side-mounted paddle-wheel arrangement, apparently for forward progress, if any. Little is known about Brooks' apparatus, but judging by this photo in an uncovered state, it didn't exactly look like something that would go tearing down a runway and plunge into the air.

Brown

Brown Aeroplane Co, Baltimore MD.

INFORMATION NEEDED

1911 = 2pOB; ff: 5/17/11 (p: Antony Jannus).

Brown

Dewey W Brown, Dexter KS.

1919 = 1pOM; four-cyl Saxon auto engine. For what must be one of the earliest, if not youngest, home-builders, inspiration came from an article in Popular Mechanics. 20-year-old Brown hand-crafted his creation, including a hand-carved prop, from whatever material he could scrounge up. Total cost to build, $125, was mostly for dope and fabric. Unfortunately, the old motor failed to cough up enough power to get things airborne, but word reached Swallow Co, who hired him to work on their aircraft.

Brown

Louis H Brown, Toledo OH.

1927 = 4pO/CB; 180hp Hisso E; span: 36'4" length: 27'6" load: 1248# v: 100/x/43. Mahogany-lined cabin accommodated two, another passenger sat with the pilot out in the fresh air. Wood-framed fuselage. Designer-builder Brown, 19 years old at the time, was also his own test pilot, and made many successful flights in his creation [168].

Brown

C L Brown, Rushville MO.

1931 = A kit-built Heath with its original 25hp Heath B-4 replaced by a two-cylinder Cleone modified by Brown into a rotary engine, and with the housing attached to another propeller, of opposite pitch, at the rear. This two-prop arrangement theoretically would do away with torque and add more thrust, but in real life it created more problems than it solved, and the machine never got past a fast taxi.

1935 = 1pOlwM; 80hp Genet (modified as a rotary); span: 18'2" length: 18'0" v: 140/120/40. Brown's improved duplex-prop version seems to have fared better, since it flew and reportedly climbed at a 30° angle without stalling off on a wing. Deep-chord wings helped in this respect, but credit must be given to the cowled counter-rotating props, and the motor, which was highly modified with a scavenging oil system.

B 1932 = Unknown type; 80hp Genet. This might be an earlier model of the previous plane, which originally was a 1pOhwM, or a different one. [12542] c/n B-2.

Bryan

Leland D Bryan (GMC-Buick engr), Milford MI.

Bryan II [N2714C]II, III 1956 = 1pClwM roadable; 75hp Continental A-75 pusher; span: 22'0" length: 19'0" load: 300# v: 105/90/55 (max road speed: 60) range: 300. Twin-boom, all-metal. Major parts of a standard Ercoupe were used for construction. For highway travel (at 45 mph), wings were folded upwards, then wing tips were cranked inwards to form a protective square around the prop. II [N2714C] traveled 1000 miles on the road under its own power and flew 65 hours. Bryan's first roadable was Autoplane, flown in 1953. His third attempt, two-seater III, was on the register in the 1970s, evidently II rebuilt, and in that one Byran was killed in a crash in 1974.

Bryan-Laird

Greer College, Greer Airways, 2024 S Wabash Ave, Chicago IL.

B-1B 1929 = 2pOB; 60hp Anzani. J C Bryan, Charles Laird. No data as to whether or not this class project ever got off the ground. [516K] c/n 1. Was it originally the Chicago Viking? ALSO SEE Aircraft Engineers, Chicago Avn, and (Charles) Lairdentries.

Brysacz

No data.

Model 2 1933 = 1pOM; 40hp Clark. [13548].

Buchanan

William O Buchanan, Long Beach CA.

Zipper 1936 = 1pOlwM modified from Mason Greater Meteor, but its eight-cylinder, 90hp Indy-type racing engine (284hp Miller) was so problematical as to preclude even a test flight. Reportedy renamed Texas Sky Ranger, but no data was found on that one.

Buckley LC-4[499W] (Dan Shumaker coll)LC-4 Witchcraft 1930 (ATC 2-359) = 4pClwM; 300hp P&W Wasp Jr; span: 52'0". William Stout. All-metal design for use as an aerial taxi. Original contract with Yellow Air Cab Co called for 200 planes at $2,225,000; however, the sole output went to Northrop Co, and eventually was scrapped [499W]. Some records indicate one other aircraft was built, but no verification was found.

Budd

1930: Edward G Budd Mfg Co, Philadelphia PA.

Budd BB-1 at Franklin Institute [NR749N]BB-1 Pioneer 1931 = ChwMAm; 210hp Kinner C-5; span: 34'2" length: 25'8" load: 1551#. Used Savoia-Marchetti S-31 design concepts. First of the stainless steel construction process (US patent #2,425,498 in 1942)  a wire-cloth fabric was first tried, but this proved unsuccessful because technology in tightening this new fabric was unknown, and a standard cloth was used to cover the wings. POP: 1 [NR749N], which has perched on a mounting in front of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute for a long time, now (2006) with its lower wing and empennage fabric missing, deteriorated by time and weather. Budd's initial entry into the world of aeronautics was in the contract manufacture of aircraft wheels and stainless steel wing ribs in 1930.

Buffington

Bulask-Hidalgo

Herman C Bulask & joseph Hidalgo, San Francisco CA.

c.1909 = No aircraft data. Hidalgo was an instructor at Univ of California, a president of Pacific Aero Club, author of 1910 book The History of Aerial Navigation, and is said to have built several Bay Area aircraft in the early days both by himself and, like this one, in league with others.

Bultzing-Slöwen

INFORMATION NEEDED

NY.

Biplane-Helicopter c.1909 = 1pOB; 35hp pusher with two propellers; span: 15'0" length: 12'9". Described in Jane's as a "tubular frame mounted on four bicycle wheels, which can be geared to the engine if required"that suggests it could also be roadable. Two 6' adjustable helicopter blades, running at 120rpm, were mounted under the lower wings. No performance data found.

Burke

Model 1 1929 = 1pOmwM*; 38hp Cross #578 5-cyl radial; span: 26'6" length: 17'8"; ff (assumed): 6/1/29. *Described as an "externally-braced medium high-wing," which likely was a shoulder-wing. POP: 1 [X335H] c/n 1. Reg cancelled 1/16/30, but a subsequent letter to CAA referred to it as "the Keith mid-wing monoplane," which doesn't help in the least. SEE ALSO Cross-Foster.

Burkholdt

Fred & Sanford Burkholdt, Minneapolis MN.

INFORMATION NEEDED

1927 = 1pOhwM; 45hp Ford A engine. Displayed at an aero exposition at Minneapolis in 1927, but further info not found. [10424]. Reg [10423] lists a Burkholt with a Cleone engine, but data there are also in short supply.

Burlington SEE Hartman

Burns

Art Burns & J E "Brig" Young (Jung), Los Angeles CA.

Burns (Edward J Young coll)
1925 = 3pOBF; 150hp Hisso A. Donald Douglas, Dutch Kindelberger. Constructed by Young and other Douglas employees at his at home (3448 Hunter St) for use as the first scheduled passenger carrier for the Wilmington-Catalina Island service. Had an early EDO float, also possibly Curtiss OX-5 at first.

Burrell

Burrows

Riley Burrows, Gardena and Glendale CA.

R-1 19?? = Racer of unknown type; Cirrus engine. [12298].

R-4 1933 = 1pOlwM; 100hp Cirrus. Racer [NR226Y].

R-5 1934 = 1pOlwM; 120hp Martin 333; v: 200+/c.150/50. Very short-span (12'0") racer built by Burrows was modified, after crashing in initial flight tests, by Curtiss-Wright Tech students in 1935. Novel split trailing-edge flaps provided low landing speed; 65-gallon fuel tanks for 1500-mile range with the thought of entry in Bendix races [NR214Y] (erroneously in one register as [14220]). Destroyed in a crash at Denver CO on 4/3/36. A subsequent larger redesign, as B-6, was submitted to AAC for pursuit evaluation, but never went past the blueprint stage.

Butz F-1 SEE Flagg-Snyder Racer

Buxton

Buzzard SEE Snyder

Byron

Charles Byron, East Brunswick NJ.

Byroncraft A1 1972 = 4pChwMAm; two 125hp Lycoming O-290; v: x/160/x.

A popular axiom in today's commercial aviation industry puts a pilot and a dog in an airliner. The dog is there to bite the pilot if he so much as tries to touch the controls. The pilot's job is to feed the dog.  unknown